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The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1887-12-17

One of the most beautiful of modern
inventions remains to be seen whatho,
1t Is as useful as it is beautiful-is the in
strument devised by Mr.. John Robertson
LOT the transmission of writing bv cleo
tlclty. Out of the top of a box. which
Is about the size of an ordinary disnatcb
oox, protrudes what has the appearance
OF a stylographic pen. This, however. is
not pen, but the handle of the s.trans-
mltter, and its lower end is fixed to a
light brass perpendicular bar. ANY mo-
tlon given by the hand-you hold it lust
IKE pen-to the handle of the trans
m1tter Is communicated by this bar to
Two series of carbon disks contained
within the box, and, after various adj
ventures among magnets, ETC., is carried
again to the top of the box, where it is
reproduced exactly by small ink hold
ing pen, whose point rests on white
paper tape. A clcckwork apparatus pulls
TINS tape along at a gentle pace, and after
httle practice you find that it is quite
easy to move the handle of the transmit
ter so that the pen shall write legibly on
the moving tape. Now, whatever is
written on the tape before you is written
simultaneously a mile off, or it may be-
fifty miles off, on similar tape by SIM
liar instrument at the other end of the
wire. The Instrument is very compact
and apparently efficient, and is quite
silent. A name will be wanted for this
machine. Perhaps the "wire writer
will do.-The Argonaut.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1887-12-17
Chasing Metenrs.

We caution our readers to put no re-
lance in stories about meteors which
come very near those who were startled
by them. We were fooled once, about
thirty years ago, by one of these brilliant
wanderers in space. It passed right over
the Litchfield fair grounds, apparently,
and struck the earth over on Chestnut
hill. We were SO fully convinced that
it buried itself in Litchfield soil that we
cogitated upon the advisability of going
over to unearth the thing.
s'Pshaw, Joe" said the good old father
when we reported the matter on our ar
rival home, ''it was more likely hundreds
of miles away" at can't be, father, ;"
we replied; ''H. B. Graves saw it and
said he should think it passed over John
H. Hubbard's house, OF at least not
farther down than the fair grounds.
Why, father, we heard itH'
The next day S New York papers weak
ened our faith in our ability to calculate
on meteoric distance. The same brilliant
sphere was reported by telegraph as hav-
ing been seen by people in Kentucky, and
few days later a westward bound trans
atlantic steamer reported having seen it
1900 miles out at sea, Winsted Conn. J
Herald.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1887-12-17

,ssThe marriage of an American or an
Englishman to japanese woman is not
so rare an occurrence as the CRITICS who
have been writing about E. H. Houses
clever novelette, seem to Think said
diplomat who spent years in Japan to
mo the other night. "a number of such
marriages have occurred in the past ten
or fifteen years. | may instance as con-
spicuous examples that of one of the Sec
retaries of the American legation to a
japanese girl of noble blood, and still
more striking, perhaps, the marriage of
the sister of another attache of the
American legation. House himself, he
continued, adopted a Japanese girl,
who has cared for him in his illness like
daughter. House is a very clever man,
one of the most brilliant men ever met,
but has been bedridden for years, and
peculiarly dependent upon the tenderness
and thoughtfulness of his adopted daugh-
ter, who has shown all those high, fine
qualities which he ascribes to the heroine
of his little story. Washington Cor.
Philadelphia Record.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1887-12-17
Long Distance relenhoninr.

Long distance telephoning has become
such an accomplished fact that at the
principal pay telephone stations in this
city long distance telephones have re-
placed the ordinary telephones, and con-
nection can now be made with Boston
and Philadelphia. H. L. Stoddard, the
New York correspondent of The Philadel-
phia Press, says that at his office in this
city he has secured connection with his
Office in Philadelphia by a long distance
telephone, over which he nightly trans
mits all his news instead of using tele-
graph service. The Philadelphia News
has similar telephone connection with
this city. The distance from New York
to Philadelphia is ninety-fve miles, but
the sound of the voice is transmitted
much more clearly than by telephone in
this city, where the induction caused by
the enormous number of wires covering
the city closely is SO great as to seriously
disturb transmission. The use of the tele-
phone in the sending of news has not
been sufficiently tested to compare it
thoroughly with telegraphic service, but
Mr.. Stoddard says that it has many adj
vantages, and predicts that it will come
into general use.-New York Tribune.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1887-12-17
Real Turkish Candy.

There is a peculiar story in relation to
the large. creamy looking blocks of candy
that have been peddled around the streets
for the last month or so, and story, too,
With a romance.
Several months ago Turk strolled into
an uptown confectionery and made some
purchases in the candy line. He re-
marked after eating few that the flavor
was pretty good, but far inferior to a
certain concoction known to his country
men. The proprietor began to grow in
terested, and before the Turk had left
agreed to employ two of his cousins, who
were candy makers in Turkey, if he the
Turk would import them. Some two
months later the Turks arrived on the
the steamship Helvetia. By relating some
wonderful yarns of their abilities as
candy makers the emigration commits
sioners allowed them to pass, although
they had doubts as to whether or not they
were contract labor"
They went to the confectioner and for
several weeks made ''real Turkish candy"
on a salary. Two weeks ago they
''struck" for higher wages, and not get
ting them left in huff They hired
little place over on the east side and put
out a gaudy business sign.-New York
Gtor
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1887-12-17
DEATH OF EMPEROR PAUL.
Assassination of the Russian Gar by
Rand of Consnirafors

Assassination of the Russian Gar by q
Band of Conspirators.
1he conspirators first met and drank
pretty deep into the night, SO that none
of them were really sober when they ap-
peared before Paul. They had already
murdered the sentry in the passage, and.
on finding that the door of the emperor $
room offered some resistance, Pahlen
broke it open. He had in his hand when
he did SO snuff box, given him by Paul
only few days previously, when the en-
peror had spoken to him of conspiracy
on foot, and when Pahlen had reassured
him by asking how that could be? 'sfcr
if there were such thing I should be
sure to have heard of it, Now, the
halt naked czar confronted Pahlen with
the angry exclamation, 'sWhat, you there,
Pahlen!" Beningsen then stepped for
ward, acting as spokesman for the rest,
and told the emperor that he must ab-
dicate.
Up to this moment, thanks to the COM
plicity of the officer on duty at the foot
of the staircase, the conspirators had had
it all their own way; but now noise
frightened them and made them fear that
a rescue was being attempted. 1t really
came from the empress rooms. She,
hearing the scufhe, ran out and swooned
at the back of Paul's door. An attend
ant offered glass of water, but the
Cossack on guard in her passage,
fearing treachery also in this case,
dashed down the glass, and ran to
fill another from a source which
,<,1 &.~
the frenzy of their deep potations tho
conspirators now added the stimulant of
fear. Paul must die; he must not be
rescued, must not survive to tell who had
threatened him. nor even to plot, III an
enforced confinement, vengeance on
those who had robbed him of power He
had already tested the trap door, and on
finding it locked had given way to a
paroxysm of terror and fury.
Then it was that the armed men closed
in upon him; the brothers Zubow 20
eager for revenge being the keenest, and
Nicholas Zubow striking the first blow
with a chair. This prostrated him. The
sash of Pahlen seemed to be the weapon
most suitable for their purpose, namely.
to lnhict violent death which should
leave few traces of violence, and which
might be ascribed to fit. The Cour-
lander's sash was tied around the em-
peror's neck, and then the officer on
guard Ia Russian pur songl noticed a
strange instance of the divinity which. in
the native Russian breast, does hedge in
the white czar. All the Russians fell
back, and as Beningsen pulled the ends
of the scarf to strangnlation they said to
each other aside and in Russian, s.It's q
dogs trick-better let the German dog
do it. Edinburgh Review.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1887-12-17
coodbv. namboo IrmbreIla Frames.

One form of Japanese industry seems
doomed to extinction, namely, the MAX
of bamboo umbrella frames. Paragon
wire is now imported as substitute.
The old japanese bamboo frame and oil
paper umbrella is fast going out of use,
even in the country districts, and there is
brisk and growing manufacture of UNI
brellas and parasols of the European
fashion, not only for home consumption
in Japan, but also for export to China,
the Straits settlements, and other places.
The japanese are shrewd enough todis-
cover the things in which they cannot
compete with Europe. They now inn
port wire nails instead of railroad iron.-
Cleveland Leader.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1887-12-17
a Vegetable Soap.

In the valleys of California grows q
tall, slender stemmed liliaceous plant,
with purple and white flowers which
played an important part in the economy
Of the Spanish population, and is still
more or less usel by the country people.
It is the well known amole, or soap plant.
1t rises from a subterranean bulb, which
is egg shaped in form, two or three
inches in diameter, and enveloped in a
thick coating of black, matted, hair like
fibers. This bulb has the detergent pro-
perties Of soap, cleaning the hands or
clothing quite as well and much more
pleasantly than coarser kinds of soap
Popular Science Monthly.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1887-12-17

I did the continent Of Europe in ex-
actly three weeks, spending no more than
three days at the most interesting points.
In four months l saw all that l could
have seen in eight months. Travelling as
| did was very expensive, and / have
figured it out that for what it cost me in
four months could, If had taken things
quietly and slowly, have remained over
there for ten months. Travelling on the
wing, as it were, a man naturally goes to
some one of the famous hotels, as his
stay will be brief. If he had time he
would hunt up quiet room and good
eating house, and take in a city slowly,
dispensing for the most part with high
priced guides and other unnecessary ex
penses. The American tourist is the best
game found in the nets of the Europeans,
mainly on account of his rapid system
of travelling. Congressman O'Neill in
Globe Democrat.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1887-12-17
CHINESE DREAD OF THE WET.


They Wear Cloth Shoes and Always Go
in When 1t Rains.
In western lands it is proverbial say
ing of one who is peculiarly stupid that
he does not s'know enough to go in when
it rains. In China, on the contrary,
the saying would be altered so as to read:
He does not know enough to stay in
when it rains, and to a Chinese the idea
that human being has any functions
which can be harmonized with the rapid
precipitation of moisture can only be in
troduced by trepanning. They truly say
of the streets and the people in them;
s.When wind blows, one-half; rain fall,
none at ALL AS the Chinese, in their
way, are particularly practical people
none less SO than the Anglo-Saxon, though
less energetic-there must be some good
reason for their persistent refusal for CEN
tl1ries to encounter rain.
Of the fact there can be no manner of
doubt. The Tientsin massacre of 1860
might have been quadrupled in atrocity
but for timely rain, which deferred
the rowdies already on their way to
the settlement. A portable shower
would be one of the most perfect
defenses a traveller in the hostile Sec
tions of China could desire. We are
confident that a steady stream of cold
water, delivered from two-inch nozzle,
would disperse the most violent mob ever
seen by foreigner in China, in five min
utes of solar time. Grapeshot would be
much less effectual, for many would stop
to gather up the spent shot, while cold
water is something for which every Chi
nese, from the Han dynasty downward,
entertains the same aversion as a cat.
Externally or internally administered, he
regards it as alike fatal.
The remote causes of their deep seated
antipathy to wet weather lie imbedded in
the Chinese constitution, but the proxi-
mate causes, in our view, are twofold-
the porosity of cotton cloth and the abso-
lutte scarcity of dirt. To our readers
these reasons will, no doubt, appear in
adequate, not to say frivolous; but this,
we believe, is because they have not re-
fected profoundly on the subject. Why
the Chinese should persist in wearing
cloth shoes we do not pretend to say, but
wear them they certainly do. Damp feet
are not only uncomfortable, they are
dangerous to health. Oiled boots are
luxuries for the few, and, in seven cases
out of eight; he who goes abroad when it
rains will do it in cotton cloth shoes,
which will be ruined. He has no light
sandals. He never washes his feet.
Hence it is easier and more philosophical
to stay at home-which he does. -Tient-
sin Chinese Times.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1887-12-17
Eov Bovs can Make nronev,

Russell Sage's advice: by O getting
a position; ~ keeping his mouth shut;
(3) observing; az being faithful; (5) max
ing his employer think that he would be
lost in a fog without him; (6) to be po-
lite. This is good way for young
man to begin after he gets there. If he
lives up to these rules he will not want a
friend at court for any length of time
in fact, not at all.
Jay Gould's policy: keep out of bad
company and go to work with will.
The boy who does that is bound TO get
on in the world"
Cyrus w. Fields scheme: 'sPunctd-
ality, honesty and brevity," Mr.. Field
says, .sare the watchwords of life. In
terviews in Washington Post.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1887-12-17
The Tarantula's Enemy.

The worst enemy of the California tar
antula is a big insect, something like a
wasp, only much larger, which attacks
the monster spider whenever it sees him.
Almost invariably these wasps sting the
tarantula to death in short time, and
then tear the body in pieces and carry it
away.-New York Sun,
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1887-12-17
Discovery of America.

"There is no historical fact in the
world better established than that Amer
lea was discovered by Icelanders in the
year A. D. 1901, writes Professor
Majunssun, of Cambridge university in
England, and he adds that there is not a
learned body in Europe that ever breathes
a doubt about il. Chicago Times.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1887-12-17
yeIocipedes in GERMANY.

The manufacture of bicycles and tricy-
cles is the latest development of German
competition with hitherto specifically
English industry. The splendid roads of
the Black Forest and Switzerland have
this year been more thronged than ever
before with velocipedists. There is now
hardly town in Germany without its
velocipede club.-Public Opinion.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1887-12-17
MORTAL MAN.

o, what thing is man: how far from power,
From settled peace and rest!
He is some several twenty men,
Each several hour.
One while he counts of heaven, as of his treasure;
But then thought creeps in.
Call him coward, who, for fear of sin,
Will lose pleasure.
o, what a sight is man, if his attires
Did alter with his mind;
And, like dolphin's skin, his clothes com
bined
With his desires
Surely, if each one saw another's heart,
There would be no commerce,
No sale or bargain pass; all would disperse
And live apart. George Herbert.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1887-12-17
Compressed Air Engine.

At the Newcastle exhibition can be
seen new locomotive, run by compressed
air. 1t is intended for underground work
especially and has already been employed
in several of the Durham mines. 1t has
weight of about two tons and runs on
a narrow gauge, thirty-three and one-half
inch track. The maximum load which
the engine viii draw is twelve tons. The
air is at 400 pounds pressure, and, with
q load of five tons on an ordinary road,
single air charge will last about one
mile. Chicago Tribune.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1887-12-17
On Gaoroe said tho bonn,

Oh, George, said the happy girl, do
you know what papa gave me last night
when | told him that had consented
to be your wife? No, responded George,
endeavoring to conceal his anxiety, as
visions OF a check loomed up before
him. What was it he gave you dear ?
And the girl bowed her head on his coat
collar and murmured, His blessing:
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1887-12-17

Are you Home Ruler was asked Of
one Of the candidates at the late election
A voice from the back seats answered.
No !; but his wife is.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1887-12-17
Wax Candles from Sugar Cane.

One more sign of economics of progress
is that it is contemplated to make wax
candles out of sugar cane. It yields
cerosin, which has a high melting point.
New York Times.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1887-12-17

The best reason yet advanced for hav-
ing Monday, washing day, the next after
Sunday, is because cleanliness ID next to
godliness.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1887-12-17

Nasty says that nothing draws a man
down like wLiskey." We have also been
told that nothing "eIeyates" man like
whiskey.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1887-12-17

The Chilian government is offering free
board and lodging and salary of 81, 500
paper money to German instructors to
accept positions as teachers in the col
leges of Chill.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1887-12-17

Keep stiff upper lip; no matter
what happens, show that you have
pluck. In the end you are bound to
win.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1887-12-17

The win Of the people must always be
admitted to probate.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1887-12-17

Johnny had heard Of man who hung
fire and wanted TO know how he man
aged to do it without burning the rope.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1887-12-17

A woman never divulges secret. Az
soon as anything confidential is told her
it ceases to be secret right there.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1887-12-17

A hen out Weet has just laid an egg
as big as bowl" First time we ever
heard Of bowl-egged hen.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1887-12-17

For picture of abject shame, study
the face Of pug dog that is being led
through the streets by dude.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1887-12-17
chiroeraphx at the Hotels.

There's notable difference in the
chirography Of foreigners and native
born Americans, as exhibited on the no.
tel registers. The former write, as a
rule, especially if from the continent, a
small, careful and sometimes painfully
minute hand The sovereign of The
United States dashes away as if ink and
paper cost nothing, and he wouldn't care
if it did.-New York World.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1887-12-17

Chloroform was discovered by Samuel
Guthrie, of Sackett's Harbor, N. T., in
1881, and independently by Liebig, in
1889.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1887-12-17

Speaking Of internal machines. is the
hand organ included2
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1887-12-17
A Thread from Wood.

An Austrian has patented a process for
getting thread that can be spun and
bleached from wood which is cut in long
lengths and boiled till it will cleave apart
in fibrous punches by shaking in water.
1t is then shredded by hand, or by ma
chinery, and spun like hemp. This gives
very fine thread, and less boiling gives
a coarser one.-N. Y. Mail and Express.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1887-12-17
canada,a craaa for Titles.

The craze for titles is spreading rapidly
among the middle classes of Canada, and
it is said that nine mothers out of ten
who take their infants to the haptismaG
font have them christened Lord John, -
''Sir William, y '.fady Ellen, ETC., even
when they have not the slightest claim to
bear title.-New York Evening World.
How many birthdays do you think |
have had one person was heard TO say
to another Oh, about iorty>seven,
hazzarded the person addressed. Only
one birthday. The rest have been ans
niyersaries, was the explanation.
Shouldn't the fork of river be near
its MOUTH
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-02-11
Panoramic Entertainment.

There will be given this evening
at the Knights of Labor hall, corner
of Elm and Hawkins street for the
benefit of the Floyd street NJ. L.
church a grand stereoptican and vcn-
triloqual exhibition, giving a series OF
panoramic views, showing some ofthe
finest views in the world. This will
be an interesting aud instructive en-
tertainment and the attendance ought
to be large.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-02-11
THE EAVESDROPPER,
Who Hastens to Print What He Hap
pens to Hear. Withoutth Con-
sent ofthe Authors Thereof.

Miss Rosa: Dolls, birds and poodles
are very poor pets, but they are better
than nothing.
JJ. KIMBERLIN: Sherman is on a
respectable boom, and fair grain
crop is all we need.
LAWYER c.: There is such a case,
may it please the court; but have TAI
ed TO find the book. Some of our law
yers are excellent book-keepers.
w. S SIDDALL: / consider Dallas
the metropolis of the Southwest, and
like the people here just about well
enough to become one of them.
DIRECTOR: The effort to stir up
the old differences regarding the Nv o
fairs should fail and everything should
90 on harmoniously. The best inter
ests of Dallas demand it.
Col. WITHERs: When Senator In
gals attacks the British lion we
might believe that he is somewhat OF
a lion himself, if it were not for his
record and his Colorado canary voice
L.F. BoHNY: There will not be any
beer or intoxicants on the ground
during the laying of the cornerstone
of Turner Hall to-day. The state
ment that "becr will flow freely" is a
mistake.
CAPT. WRIGHT: Consolidation" is
the word. The street-car lines, the
fairs, the great mercantile firms, the
cities of old Dallas and East Dallas
and finally Dallas and Fort Worth
should meet half way and join their
destinies.
Ell. SIMPSON: Weatherford is in
the drouth- stricken region and times
are dull there, but good crops will
make all right. Bargains have been
available in Parker county real estate
the past year that will never be III
reach again. The same is true Of
many of the western counties.
Gov. JOHN G. Brown: Maj. Waldo
is in position to understand the rail-
way business of Texas and is thor
oughly informed lie presents flcts
and figures which may be
verified by reference to records that
cannot be questioned. Perhaps the
day of great land subsidies has passed,
but Texas railways could not have
been built and maintained without
them during this century.